The official website of the Research Council of Norway (RCN) operates a search engine dedicated to researchers from beneficiary countries supported within the framework of the 3rd edition of the Norwegian Financial Mechanism and the EEA Financial Mechanism (the EEA and Norway Grants). The search engine is designed to facilitate cooperation between potential research project partners. Individual researchers, administrative representatives of research centres, other public institutions, and NGOs, as well as enterprises are invited to register on the website of the RCN.

Dr hab. Michał R. Szymański from the University of Gdańsk is currently in charge of a project funded under NCN's POLONEZ 2, while Dr Rafał Banka from the Jagiellonian University is conducting research within the framework of SONATA 12. Yesterday, the two researchers received prestigious Starting Grants awarded by the European Research Council.

On 18 September, NCN staff will be available to answer questions concerning the GRIEG call during an information chat. You can submit your queries between 10am and 12pm. The chat will be held in English and open to researchers from Poland and Norway. In order to log in, you need only provide your name or nickname and e-mail address. The answers to the questions asked during the chat will be published on the our website in the section: EEA and Norway Grants.

The BiodivClimBiodiversity and Climate Change call for international research projects in the area of biodiversity and climate change is hereby announced by the National Science Centre (hereinafter: “NCN”), acting in cooperation with the BiodivERsA network. Funding proposals may be submitted by international consortia composed of at least 3 research teams from at least 3 countries participating in the call.

In the run-up to the planned introduction of a new open access policy to govern the publication of research results obtained in projects funded by the NCN, we have verified the annual and final project reports. We have analysed the modes in which our grantees publish their research results and the amount of funds slated for that purpose.

We are pleased to announce that two projects involving researchers from Poland have been awarded funding within the CHIST-ERA Call 2018. Within this funding opportunity almost EUR 9 million have been granted to 10 research projects in the topics of: